We help you build your startup.

Technical Guidance

Like an acting Chief Technology Officer, we help analyze your target market and problem-space, and connect your market with the technical vision of your product to choose the best technology stack for your needs.

Scalable Dev Team

Our passionate development team is here for you. We quickly build your Minimum Viable Product, providing a lean yet strong base from which to build. With your MVP, you’re able to launch and begin gathering feedback and gaining momentum as soon as possible.

Branding & Design

We work with startups from:

These are some happy clients!

I have worked with many software developers in my career. Alfa Jango has not only deep technical expertise, but what is more valuable and rare, is a team that acts as a founding CTO, providing great advice on what to build, in what sequence, saving you money and increasing the likelihood of your success.

— Ed Farrell,

Alfa Jango brings our ideas to life, but more than that, they constantly go above and beyond, applying their insight and care to every aspect of our application. Thoughtful, thorough, and true professionals - it is an absolute privilege to work with this team.

— Cait Holman,

I'm certain that my start-up wouldn't be at the point it is now without the professional work of Alfa Jango. I hit a home-run by working with Alfa Jango!

— Nic Stelter,

Steve Schwartz and the rest of the Alfa Jango team have been absolutely integral to the development of PriceLocal from conception to launch and beyond. Alfa Jango listens well and always provides solutions that exceed expectations.

— Matt Chosid,

Our past, present & future

Housed in the Northern Brewery historic office building in downtown Ann Arbor, MI, Alfa Jango, LLC is dedicated to helping your business grow and scale with web-based software and application development.

We work closely with startups to quickly grow and transition them to viable companies with minimal investment, by developing and building a successful Minimum Viable Product (MVP), and then quickly iterating thereafter.

And for our enterprise clients, we use this same lean methodology to build reliable, tested, scalable applications with minimal cost.

We the Team

Steve's bio is forthcoming. In the meantime, here's some stuff he's done.

Bachelors in Mechanical Engineering and Electrical Engineering from Kettering University

Founded and built RateMyStudentRental.com and LeadNuke.com

Maintainer of jquery-ujs and jquery-rails in Rails core

Built popular open-source software including remotipart gem and jquery-easytabs plugin

Scott GociDeveloper

Scott's bio is forthcoming. Suffice it to say, he's an awesome developer, entrepreneur, and all-around great guy.

Kevin RyanGraphic Designer

Kevin leads all our design from UI/UX Design, Branding, Graphic Design and Illustration. After years in the agency world Kevin brings his skills and creativity to Alfa Jango's team.

Angie MininniOffice Manager

Angie's bio is forthcoming. Angie is a dedicated office manager who keeps everyone happy and inline.

Richard PengDeveloper

Richard loves gadgets, especially the Internet of Things. Also a foodie and beer lover. He enjoys hiking and wants to visit all of the National Parks.

Jonathan GabelDeveloper

Jonathan took the scenic route to programming through sculpture, video, and teaching contemporary art history. He and his wife moved to Michigan two years ago with their cat named Monkey. This has been confusing to the two year-old next door.

"Ooo Ooo Ooo?"

"No, Meow."

Max LangensiepenDeveloper

Max's bio is forthcoming. Max comes from a long line of ancestors, and he loves front-end software development.

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We've been quietly building a jQuery plugin over the past couple years to help make tabular data more interactive. You might be familiar with existing plugins such as DataTables. But after extensive use, we finally made the decision that it wasn't for us.

This exploit is similar to the XML vulnerability explained in our last post. This exploit, however, is in the JSON parsing of Rails 2.3.x and 3.0.x, due to the fact that the built-in JSON parser in those versions of Rails delegated a lot of its logic to the YAML parser. The exploit and official patches were announced here on the official RoR Security mailing list.

There's been a lot of commotion lately about the critical vulnerability in Rails (>= Rails 2). And with good reason. For technical details, you can see any number of write-ups, including the post on the Rails-core mailing list from Aaron Patterson, this post on Rapid7, and this discussion on Hacker News. There are also posts on the EngineYard blog and Heroku blog.
In this article though, I'd like to 1) boil the issue down to its most basic principle, and 2) outline your options for fixing.